Word: sordid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards. By resisting his temptation in this instance [i.e., by not occupying Eire when the German invasion threatened], Mr. Churchill, instead of adding another sordid chapter to the already bloodstained record of the relations between England and this country, has advanced the cause of international morality an important step...
...Tree Grows in Brooklyn" has turned up on the screen quite cleaned up and edited, but the sordid spirit and the pat honesty are still very much in evidence. If the story is inclined to bore the avid action fan with its straightforward excess of emotion, then the indictment probably spares Hollywood and goes back to Betty Smith...
Such questions were interesting but academic. If the San Francisco conference descended to such sordid legalistic maneuvering, world security would be a dead duck...
...Detroit's citizens stepped up to the microphone one night last week and told how he had "hit bottom" as an alcoholic. To underline his confession, some of the more melodramatic and sordid aspects of his past were dramatized. Then he told of his regeneration. Summed up the announcer: "Alcoholism is a disease . . . an obsession . . . an allergy...
Last week there came a shocked cry from the undertakers. The idea that morticians fight for cadavers, said some dignified practitioners, was "too sordid and unwarranted for reply." Indignantly, they explained that 75% of all funerals cost less than $500, and that few caskets (undertakerese for "coffins") ever cost more than $10,000 (even these are so rare and beautiful that undertakers reverently call them "couches...